{{Short description|Extinct suborder of earwigs}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Callovian|Aptian}} | image = 12862 2010 Article 1559 Fig1 HTML.webp | image_caption = ''Belloderma arcuata'' | taxon = Eodermaptera | authority = Engel, 2003 | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = See text }}
'''Eodermaptera''' is an extinct suborder of earwigs known from the Middle Jurassic to Mid Cretaceous. Defining characteristics include "tarsi three-segmented, tegmina retain venation, 8th and 9th abdominal tergite in females are narrowed, but separate from 10th tergite and not covered by 7th tergite and exposed ovipositor"<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zhao J, Zhao Y, Shih C, Ren D, Wang Y | title = Transitional fossil earwigs--a missing link in Dermaptera evolution | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 344 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 21062504 | pmc = 2993717 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-10-344 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2010BMCEE..10..344Z }}</ref> They are considered to be more closely related to Neodermaptera than the more basal Archidermaptera.<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = Engel MS, Peris D, Chatzimanolis S, Delclòs X |date=2015-05-30|title=An earwig (Insecta: Dermaptera) in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/46/3/article-p291_3.xml|journal=Insect Systematics & Evolution|volume=46|issue=3|pages=291–300|doi=10.1163/1876312X-45032121|issn=1399-560X|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
== Systematics ==
* Family Bellodermatidae Zhao, Shih & Ren, 2010 ** †''Belloderma'' Zhao, Shih & Ren, 2010 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian) * †''Archaeosoma'' Zhang 1994 Laiyang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) * Superfamily Semenovioloidea Vishnyakova 1980 ** Family Turanodermatidae Engel 2003 *** †''Turanoderma'' Vishnyakova 1980 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Middle-Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) ** Family Semenoviolidae Vishnyakova 1980 *** †''Semenovioloides'' Vishnyakova 1980 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian ***†''Aglyptoderma'' Xiong et al, 2021 Jiulongshan Formation, China, Callovian<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Xiong|first1=Shurong|last2=Engel|first2=Michael S.|last3=Xiao|first3=Lifang|last4=Ren|first4=Dong|date=2021-09-26|title=New eodermapteran earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of China|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2021.1965215|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology|volume=45 |issue=3 |language=en|pages=335–343|doi=10.1080/03115518.2021.1965215|bibcode=2021Alch...45..335X |s2cid=244103979 |issn=0311-5518|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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Category:Earwigs Category:Insect suborders Category:Prehistoric insect taxa Category:Taxa named by Michael S. Engel {{earwig-stub}}